House features

Few doorways to domestic buildings survive that are clearly medieval,
although some from the sixteenth century are much of the same style.
Those shown above are:

(top right) The doorway to a typical Kentish merchant's house of the
fifteenth century, in All Saints Lane, Canterbury.

(top left) South door of Dragon Hall, Norwich, a fourteenth-century
residence converted (ca.1450) into a trading hall by merchant Robert Toppes.
It was likely he who added, to the entrance of the original residence,
this impressive stone doorway, perhaps purchased second-hand from some
religious institution, to impress clients entering the cloth emporium;
Toppes' coat-of-arms may have adorned one or more of the shields.

Window technology has developed far more than that of doors, and
so little now remains in medieval houses of the original windows.
Barley Hall provides reconstructions of those: (left) a large window, with
multiple folding shutters, threw plenty of light into the Great Hall;
(top right) single-shutter window in the storeroom, covered with treated
linen to let in light but keep out drafts; (bottom right) window in the
upper floor parlour. Even in a building such as London's Guildhall only
one of the medieval windows
has survived.

Medieval roof support structures have occasionally survived, in part
because hidden from view and interference. The crown-post roof truss is
the most striking form. The timbers on which roofing was laid were supported
by multiple arms attached to the central post; the post itself sat atop
one or more tie-beams, which distributed the weight of the roof back
into the walls of the building. These elaborate support structures are
usually found in large rooms such as halls.